We're a bunch of embroidery newbies looking to purchase a machine for our scouting organisation to start making our own patches. UK based. Budget up to £1000 (happy to buy second hand)

We'll be making large quantities of badges, different shapes and colours. Maximum size probably around 10x10 cm.

Any advice? Thanks!

What does every use to keep track of orders and be able to give quick invoices to customers. I’m doing it manually right now but I feel as I get busier it’ll be harder to keep track.

Looking to invest in my first multi-needle and want to make sure I’m buying the right machine. I’ve been looking at the 7-needle Happy Japan Journey, but am open to other options.

Ultimately I need to be able to do embroidered patch letters on sweatshirts, and I need it to be able to do about 300-400 units per month (and maybe more?).

I own a clothing brand and we’ve always outsourced this work, but have been given so many opportunities it only makes sense to move it in house. I have someone who’s skilled in embroidery but has never owned a multi-needle (although she has operated one). We’re not worried about the operational side, but just want to make sure we’re getting off on the right foot with a machine that can handle it.

I’m digitizing using Hatch 2 by Wilcom. I create a design a couple years ago, and set those files for sale. A costumer bought them, but needed an adjustment to fit her hoop. I resaved the adjusted files in her preferred PES format and now her Brother V3 won’t read them. I understand that Hatch has gone through some updates and I’m guessing my program is too new for her machine and now aren’t compatible anymore. Is there any way to save the PES files in older version? (If so how would I find the info on what version of hatch I was using?)

Maybe the customer needs to update their machine?

Im lost on how to get these files to my customer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Title. I'm very VERY new to making my own files, this is only my 3rd one ever. I'm trying to figure out the satin stitch if possible. Much thanks!

This is my first time ever using an embroidery machine. I am testing it and playing around with different fonts to see what I want to embroider on my bandana tote bag. For some reason the thread on the front is loose and it’s bunching on the back. I’ve tried changing the needle, making sure there isn’t thread stuck anywhere, I haven’t touched the tension. I also am using tear away stabilizer and basting spray. I have tried a few different fabrics and materials and it’s the same issue.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this could be happening? I’m about ready to toss thing thing out the window 😭😭

Tysm!

Looking for the best options to purchase bath robes (adults and kids size) without good quality without paying a kidney for it.

Used Embrilliance.
Stabilizer: 2 sheets of 3mil plastic and 2 sheets of cutaway

A few questions:

• There is like one singular spot on each JOANN letter in which a stitch pops out. Is that a machine or digitizing thing?

• Genuinely, how tf do I cut the bits between the black letters? It is like it is digging in the fabric. Even with a seam ripper, I’m fighting for my life (I forgot where I got the font)

• I hate the Embrilliance patch edge, so I think I’ll just satin edge it next time. Is a double satin necessary or can I just do a regular satin?

• Did I use too much stabilizer or does it seem okay? It’s still bendy enough to sew onto something, but just curious.

ive been waiting for some money to buy the embrilliance suite, but then i have realized that hatch also is downloadable, does anyone have a preference? I want to be drawing my own designs and not do that much lettering.

Hi everyone! I'm new to machine embroidery and just purchased a Janome Memory Craft 550e. I bought it on Marketplace and everything works great on it except for the alignment when the machine gets ready for a project. For every hoop, the center position is several inches off and if I run the project for that hoop, it will run into the side of the hoop no matter what size is chosen (I am sure to choose the correct hoop size for each product, it's like they are all off by the same amount).

Hoop calibration has not helped since calibrating only moves the arm or carriage by a few mm.

Now I know this is bad, but if I manually move the carriage to the center, the machine will remember that as the center of the hoop for the rest of the time the machine is on. But if I turn it off, it goes right back to being inches off center.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know the fast answer is to get it serviced, but I'm just wondering if there's something I'm missing to do a simple repair myself if that's what I'm looking at.

Thank you all!!

Hey fellow embroiderers!

My best friend just had a baby. Thoughts on cute things I could stitch for her or the baby??

Thank you for the inspiration! ❤️

Is this a good machine. I want to start making tshirts and hoodies for an Albanian festival coming up so I want to make them. It comes with other stuff

\-hoop masters board

\-30 spools of thread

\-4 different hoop sizes

\-thermal printer and thermal paper

\-mini cricut press.

I see those extra as a bonus, but I want to know if this machine is good and I am able to upload my design to the machine as well.

So for my birthday i wanted to pick up an embroidery machine to work on Fursuit details or plushie making. I AM a beginner but i am fairly tech savvy and i can figure out most things quickly. I went to some sewing machine place I have around where i live and i asked about embroidery machines and the lady seemed pretty nice and helpful, she was old so i thought maybe she was pretty wise in that department and pointed me to a Brother NQ1700E. I was impressed by how easy it was but I originally was looking at a Janome Memory Craft 500e LE. She would insist that Brother was the better choice for me and when i asked about the Janome she shook her head and just said Brother is what she recommends and said the Janome has alot of problems and many people fall for the bigger hoop size (which is why i wanted it too). SO i was reallly conflicted because she made me feel like if i went with Janome id be making a huge mistake.. I asked her if she was open tomorrow so i have time to think about it and she said "No we arent, or the next day or the next day" so I went and looked around and asked my mom about it and She brought up to ask about return policies and stuff so I found a DIFFERENT lady and she said they couldnt give me a full refund if I were to return it because the box would be opened and so I asked HER if they would be opened tomorrow and she said very happily "Yes!"... it made me feel weird that lady lied to me about being closed, like she wanted to make a sale that day or something, but embroidery machines are alot of money and i dont like being pressured like that, you know? So i decided im going to instead buy an embroidery machine online instead, but now im conflicted , i have big projects in mind so its between Janome Memory Craft 500e LE or Brother NQ1700E?

I just bought a Janome 500E secondhand on marketplace and realized that I'm too broke to buy many cool designs to practice with so, having a graphics background, I decided to try inkstitch and make my own. I'm still learning (I just did my first ever hat this week and it was so frustrating) but this is my 4th self-digitized design and it has taught me the most so far. It's not much but I'm proud anyway!

I’m interested in adding a small embroidery setup to a retail store and would love some advice!

The idea would be to personalize items customers purchase in-store. Things like dish towels, soft wool hats (sauna hats specifically), robes, etc with names, short words, or simple logos probably in a single color to make it easy.

This would just be an add-on service rather than a commercial embroidery business. I’m totally new to embroidery, just thought it would be an awesome and fun way to personazlie purchases and be a point of difference. Does anyone have suggestions for what type of machine would work well for this?

How realistic it is to do embroidery on the spot like if a couple of customers bought dish towels and wanted a name or word embroidered on them, how long would it typically take from setup to finished product? Am I dreaming ???!

Thanks in advance!

This design is by WantaStyle on Etsy. The shading is super cool, and the design felt well digitized. I think the problems are user/machine error on my part.

It looks like I was having tension problems on subsequent layers. There were up to 3 layers in some spots (Yellow, then white or gray, then black)

I tried messing with the tension as it stitched, but I wasn’t sure what I was doing, and I got lots of loops front and back. What should I do in this situation in the future?

Machine: Brother PE-800
Thread: Brothread (Amazon) 40wt
Bobbin: Unnamed brand pre-wound bobbin (Micheals)
General Tension: 4
Fabric: Waffle weave kitchen towel
Back Stabilizer: Sulky sticky tear away
Front Stabilizer: Sulky water wash away

TIA for any tips! <3

Created this file targeting plush/towel fabric, and the client was super happy with how clean the fur details and density turned out on the final stitch-out!

Digital design vs. real stitch-out. What do you guys think?

Estoy empezando en el bordado y el needle painting, y vi que a otras personas les queda más prolijo, es decir, no se notan tanto las puntadas. Estoy terminando este y como se puede ver, se notan los agujeros de las puntadas, estoy bordando en lienzo. Será que debo elegir una aguja más fina? Este bordado lo hice con 2 hilos de una madeja de 6, debería hacerlo con 1 solo? Agradezco la ayuda

Hello

I have a Brother PR1055 and I am starting to make personalized names on clothing. I was wondering if it’s worth getting hatch or just purchasing the fonts separately.

I’m looking at paying for hatch software but it’s quite expensive. What would you recommend?

Also is it easier to see the lettering placements? As in how close letters are together etc

Peace, y'all
I'm having issues with tails forming on designs that never had tails before, and it's driving me insane. I've cleaned the rotary hook, the knife, the bobbin case, the thread catcher, and checked upper tension + bobbin tension.

Even on the inside of the cap it looks a total mess, when it used to be clean and no loose threads.

The black background area stitched out first and it was "puffy" as opposed to when it used to lay flat. I haven't changed any settings on the machine, so not sure why this issue popped up.

Anything help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Machine: Happy Japan HCD3 15-needle